Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> writes: > Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hu...@iki.fi> writes: > >> Greetings. >> >> I have a very basic Babel question, but I can not extract the solution >> from the manual. >> >> I have a language-specific function - in this case Asymptote, but it >> could be e.g. C as well - that I want to use in a number of different >> source blocks of the same language in an Org file. How do I accomplish >> this? >> >> Currently my solution is to write the function into an external source >> file, and include the file in the source blocks. But that looks ugly, >> and is sort of against the Org-mode way of doing things: all code in the >> same place for completeness and convenience. >> >> How can I achieve what I want? > > try something like this: > > #+NAME: foo > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > (defun foo (x) (+ x 2)) > #+END_SRC > > #+results: foo > : foo > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var fun=foo > (funcall (intern fun) 3) > #+END_SRC > > #+results: > : 5
Or, perhaps use the noweb syntax. #+NAME: foo #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (defun foo (x) (+ x 2)) #+END_SRC #+results: foo : foo #+begin_src emacs-lisp :noweb yes <<foo>> (foo 3) #+end_src #+results: : 5 hth, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
